The latest from Trump's Truth Social now is just, er, ah:

Yes:

How are college graduates using their degrees at work? Here's our full conversation with Georgetown's Center for Education and the Workforce director Jeff Strohl, exploring their new report on underemployment: youtu.be/_6ihVJU4FbY?... @georgetowncew.bsky.social

Seen at Dulles airport:

Noah Geisel notes that schools typically recognize students learning in campus jobs solely through a paycheck.

A momentary glimpse of Cat-halla:

Yesterday's vanishing point corridor:

Some Amish consider AI: archive.is/YKP0J (HT @notjessewalker.bsky.social )

Ahahahahahaha!

A key part of Trumpworld communication style is this kind of BS cheerleading. Remember Trump telling us COVID would just disappear, early in 2020?

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Interesting front door of an academic building this morning.

Virginia governor Spanberger vetoed a law which would have set up a cannabis marketplace. virginiamercury.com/2026/05/19/s...

This bit of airport art made me smile. (Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport)

"The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and their supporters to boycott public universities in states that have moved to “limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to dramatically limit the Voting Rights Act."

Our apple trees have started fruiting.

Ah, summer made its presence felt yesterday:

Our community climate action group, tabling at our local Pride event last week.

A poll in a Chronicle webinar just now, asking: is your institution likely to merge with another within 5 years?

I hope that this represents a rising tide of activism, which will translate into massive Dem turnout in November.

What happens to a college or university endowment when the institution shuts down? One fascinating case: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/settle-case-...

A very unsettling image from Trump today:

Chinese cartoon shared by a friend:

Today's stray comic panel:

SNL has Trump visited by the ghost of Epstein: youtu.be/YzqJh6WnQOM?...

"Moody’s Ratings lowered Columbia University’s financial outlook from stable to negative this month" www.highereddive.com/news/moodys-...

We were really expecting the new Widow's Bay, "Beach Reads," to get into Carrie territory. It did not.

Spider wishes you paltry humans a good, sunbeam drenched ##caturday.

Again: Trump 2.0 is all about making the US intro a petrostate.

@michaelemann.bsky.social calls for Virginia to reduce methane emissions: virginiamercury.com/2026/05/15/m...

I am very glad my representative takes this public stance against the Iran war:

Grim report from MIT's president: drop in research funds, decline in international students. youtu.be/4xa0wGqF_RY?...

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Thanks to Emmy Martin at the @chronicle.com for this article on the Canvas hack and what comes next. Grateful to be interviewed -

A very interesting point, Iran seeking to normalize its control over the Strait, rather than going for a short term cash grab:

It was a little chilly yesterday at noon, which was the perfect excuse to make my spicy vegan ramen: Toppings: green onions, spinach, mushrooms tossed with paprika and baked Soup: veggie stock, almond milk, gochujang paste

This Robert Kagan take on the Iran war is damning and bleak. I'm trying to talk myself into disagreeing but am having a hard time: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

This livestream of a humanoid robot at work is something else. I think of it as unsettling or prosaic or calming or a sign of revolution: www.youtube.com/live/luU57hM...

I can say without hesitation that it is a splendid thing to host a colleague for lunch at our local Ethiopian restaurant.

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Iran's seize of the Strait of Hormuz might get even more... complicated:

A Trump administration official is making a reality show. Paid for by taxpayers. Of course. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Found on X:

"though sunlight must travel 93 million miles to reach the earth, none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz." - @billmckibben.bsky.social

From Trump on Truth Social today. Mental age of...?

Doesn't look good:

Looks like Instructure paid the ransom:

Ohio might declare the Loveland Frog to be its official cryptid. I say, why let Ohio have all the fun? Every state should have its own state cryptid! Which would be yours?

From The New Yorker:

It's very... interesting to play this game simulating the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz: bottleneck.jakubgornicki.com